Peyton Manning during the second round of the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am in 2014. (Christian Petersen, Getty Images)

Peyton Manning is hitting the green again.

The newly retired quarterback and Nationwide spokesman will participate in the Pro-Am of the Nationwide Invitational at the Memorial Tournament at Muirfield Village Golf Club in Dublin, Ohio, next month.

The Pro-Am will be held June 1, the day before the start of the tournament, which will feature top-ranked players such as Jason Day, Jordan Spieth and Rory McIlroy, among others.

This is typically when the Broncos go on their annual golf outing, so perhaps this is part of Manning’s new routine in retirement.Read more…

Back-to-back Super Bowl titles have only happened eight times in 50 years, and only one franchise — Pittsburgh — has done it twice.

The defending champions Broncos are looking to join the Steelers in that exclusive club in 2017. With the NFL draft complete, oddsmakers are giving Denver a solid shot at completing the feat. Bovada.lv ranks the team seventh, as of Tuesday, with +1600 odds to win Super Bowl 51 — meaning a $100 bet would net $1,600.

The Patriots are the favorites at +700, followed by the Seahawks at +800. Cleveland, San Francisco and Tennessee bring up the bottom at +10000.

A list of camps and youth events hosted by Broncos players in the Denver metro-area this summer. This will be updated as other camps are announced.

Demaryius Thomas (July 6-7, Denver): Thomas will host his ProCamp at Mullen High for both boys and girls grades 1-8. The camp runs from 9 a.m.-12:30 p.m. both days and will include instruction from Thomas and other coaches, as well as an autographed item from Thomas, a camp photo and T-shirt. Cost: $249 per participant.

Von Miller (June 21-22, Englewood): Like Thomas, Miller will host a two-day ProCamp at Englewood High for boys and girls grades 1-8. The sessions run from 9 a.m.-12:30 p.m. both days and will include instruction from Miller and other coaches, as well as an autographed item from Miller, a camp photo and T-shirt. Cost: $249 per participant.

T.J. Ward (June 4, Denver): Ward’s USA Football FUNdamentals camp will be free and open to children aged 8-13. The camp will be held from 10 a.m.-1 p.m. at Denver School of Science and Technology.

C.J. Anderson (June 11-12, Aurora): Anderson’s youth camp is for players 10 and older and will be held at Regis Jesuit High from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. both days. Anderson will be joined by other Broncos players, including receiver Jordan Norwood and defensive lineman Phil Taylor, for the two-day camp, which will conclude with a Q&A session with the players and an opportunity for autographs. Cost $199 per camper.

Broncos cornerback Chris Harris will be at the state capitol Wednesday to accept a Super Bowl 50 tribute from the state and the Colorado House of Representatives for the team’s world championship and its contributions to the city of Denver.

Harris will also speak at the adjourning session of Colorado’s 70th General Assembly.

T.J. Ward will host a celebrity golf tournament and youth skills game this summer. (Helen H. Richardson, The Denver Post)

T.J. Ward’s offseason will be busy.

On July 18, the Broncos safety will host his annual celebrity golf tournament at Blackstone Country Club in Aurora to raise money for his foundation, which supports programs to help unprivileged youth.

The event is closed to spectators, but tickets to play alongside the celebrity guests can be purchased on Ward’s website. Last year the celebrity guest list included Broncos teammates Aqib Talib and David Bruton, and Browns cornerback Joe Haden, among many others.Read more…

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Peyton Manning with former Broncos offensive coordinator Adam Gase during a game against the Kansas City Chiefs in 2014. (Steve Nehf, The Denver Post)

Peyton Manning may be retired, but he can’t stray too far from the game.

According to the Miami Herald, Manning met with his former offensive coordinator and new Dolphins head coach Adam Gase in Miami earlier this spring at the team’s headquarters and offered some advice to quarterback Ryan Tannehill.

The visit, wrote Barry Jackson, was all Manning’s idea.

Manning worked with Gase for his first three seasons in Denver before the Broncos’ coaching overhaul in January 2015. With Gase as his coordinator, Manning shattered multiple passing records in 2013, including 5,477 passing yards and 55 touchdowns to earn his fifth MVP award and led the Broncos to Super Bowl XLVIII.Read more…

The list, via the NFLPA’s marketing arm NFL Players Inc., is of the players “best positioned to rank among top-sellers of all officially licensed merchandise and become future retail stars,” taking into account their on-field performance in 2015, their fantasy popularity and demand from sponsors. Players on the list previously are not included a second time.

COMMERCE CITY — While the Broncos and outside linebacker Von Miller continue to work on a long-term deal to keep him “a Bronco for life,” Miller continues to take advantage of his national celebrity status with TV shows and high-profile appearances.

He’s not apologizing for his world tour, either.

“This is how it’s supposed to be when you win the Super Bowl,” Miller told fans outside of a King Soopers Wednesday. “We need to find a way to do this every year.”

Miller was making his first public appearance since being eliminated from ‘Dancing with the Stars’ this week to discuss his partnership with Western Union. Even though he’s been away from the team, Miller has been updated on the Broncos daily by his teammates.

He’s already looking forward to next season. He has the season opener against Carolina and a Dec. 18 date with New England circled.

Miller is ready to get back doing what he does best — sacking the quarterback. So what’s it like sacking Patriots QB Tom Brady?

“It was like sleeping on a bed,” Miller said, receiving loud laughs and cheers.

When Miller arrives back at Dove Valley, there will be some new faces as always. But defensively, the biggest hurdle will be the missing teammates from their Super Bowl 50 run.

One of Miller’s partners in harassing offensive lines, Malik Jackson, signed a six-year deal with the Jaguars this offseason. Although he’s sad he won’t be able to meet Jackson at the quarterback anymore, everything else is still positive.

“Me and Malik (are) still boys. He just got a lot more money right now,” Miller said. “That’s part of the game.”

Soon Miller will make a lot more money, too.

Von Miller plans to be a “Bronco for life.” (AAron Ontiveroz, The Denver Post)

In this Dec. 30, 2015, file photo, Memphis quarterback Paxton Lynch (12) throws a pass during the first half of the Birmingham Bowl NCAA college football game against Auburn in Birmingham, Ala. (Butch Dill, The Associated Press)

General manager John Elway and the Broncos certainly made a bold move when they moved up to pick Paxton Lynch with the No. 26 pick in the NFL draft.

More than 80 percent of readers who voted on a denverpost.com poll felt that Lynch is the Broncos’ quarterback of the future. NFL reporter Troy Renck writes Lynch has a “big arm with quick release, can make people miss and competes with passion.”

How did the rest of the country feel about the Broncos’ first-round selection? Here’s a look at what the national media wrote:

At just under 6-foot-7 and 244 pounds, Lynch has one of the strongest arms and highest ceilings in this class. He’s an above-average athlete, showing the ability to extend plays with his mobility and pick up first downs when he scrambles. Lynch lacks polish, though. He played in a scheme that simplified his reads, and he doesn’t always see the entire field despite his height. He fails to locate the open man at times.

Paxton Lynch hasn’t taken a snap with the Broncos yet, but the rookie quarterback will get his first Sports Illustrated cover.

Lynch will be on the cover of the May 9, 2016 edition. His is one of three variant covers. The other two feature fellow first-round quarterbacks Jared Goff of the Los Angeles Rams and Carson Wentz of the Philadelphia Eagles.

Lynch is the first Broncos rookie quarterback featured since John Elway graced the Aug. 15, 1983 cover, weeks before his regular-season debut with the Broncos.

Is there a curse with the magazine cover? A look at Broncos quarterbacks making their first prominent appearance on the SI cover showed some truth to this.

Manning was first featured in a Denver jersey on the Sept. 12, 2012 edition. The Broncos lost 27-21 to Atlanta that week, and Manning threw three interceptions.

“When I look back on my life, I overpaid for my big successes every time,” Jones said to the Star-Telegram. “And when I tried to get a bargain, get it a little cheaper or get a better deal on it, I ended up usually either getting it and not happy I got it. Or missing it.

The remaining eight celebrities will dance to popular music from favorite musical icons, as “Icons Night” comes to “Dancing with the Stars,” live, MONDAY, MAY 2 (8:00-10:01 p.m. EDT) on the ABC Television Network. (Adam Taylor, ABC)

Von Miller’s run on Dancing With the Stars has ended.

After performing the salsa as Elvis Presley on Icons Night of “Dancing With the Stars” Monday, Miller was voted off the show, along with Kim Fields, in a double-elimination.

Miller and partner Witney Carson received a score of 24 out of 30 from the judges Monday, the same score they received the previous week for their recreation of Michael Jackson’s “Bad” music video.

Although Miller leaves the show without the Mirror Ball trophy, it remains to be seen if he will return to the Broncos’ training facility for the team’s voluntary offseason workouts.

Miller was given the Broncos’ exclusive franchise tag, worth about $14.1 million guaranteed, but he hasn’t signed the tender and has held out of workouts while he danced and his agents negotiate with the team on a long-term deal.

Last week Miller was in Denver for an event with his foundation, Von’s Vision, and expressed optimism that an accord would be reached before the July 15 deadline.

“My teammates know what type of teammate I am,” he said. “They know what type of guy I am. It’s just the business part of it. There’s really no hard feelings or anything like that. (The Broncos) know what type of guy I am. I’m expecting a deal any day. That’s just the type of mind-set I have.”

The Broncos began phase 2 of the workout program without him Monday, hitting the field for the first time together since Super Bowl 50.

Been shoveling snow? Skiing? Ice fishing? Well, here’s your chance to catch up on the Broncos draft with hopes that the sun might actually peek its head out this week.

QB Paxton Lynch, 6-7, 244, Memphis, first-round, 26th overall: Bears striking resemblance to Brock Osweiler (and Kevin from The Backstreet Boys). Big arm with quick release, can make people miss and competes with passion. Hasn’t played under center since freshman season in college. Team has luxury to be patient with him as improves footwork and learns West Coast offense.

DT Adam Gotsis, 6-5, 282, Georgia Tech, second round, 63rd overall: An Australian brute. Defensive line coach Bill Kollar loves his work ethic, attitude, mean streak. He sees some similarities to Derek Wolfe. Most teams didn’t have him ranked this high on their draft boards. He currently weighs 298 pounds with 10 percent body fat. “He’s a beast,” general manager John Elway said.

When it came time to announce the final pick in the NFL draft, organizers had fashioned a jersey for the player selected: A Broncos jersey with “Mr. Irrelevant” on the back above the No. 253, the pick number.

However, Denver had earlier traded the pick to Tennessee. No one bothered to create a Titans jersey, so they just came out with the Broncos jersey and a Tennessee helmet.

In this Dec. 30, 2015, file photo, Memphis quarterback Paxton Lynch (12) throws a pass during the first half of the Birmingham Bowl NCAA college football game against Auburn in Birmingham, Ala. (Butch Dill, The Associated Press)

Former Memphis quarterback Paxton Lynch was almost headed to the Lone Star State instead of the Mile High City.

“It was problematic for us all along,” Cowboys owner Jerry Jones said to the Morning News. “What we want to have happen with (Tony) Romo creates some problems at this stage with a quarterback. We had a certain amount of lid on how hard we needed to go. Read more…

Paxton Lynch No. 12 of the Memphis Tigers throws a pass during a game against the Ole Miss Rebels at Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium on October 17, 2015 in Memphis, Tennessee. (Wesley Hitt, Getty Images)

John Elway must read The Denver Post.

Waaaaay back on April 9 (almost three full weeks ago), columnist Mark Kiszla opined that there was a quarterback in the 2016 NFL draft class — a guy who was the spitting image of Brock Osweiler — who the Broncos should take a gamble on.

Nicki Jhabvala is a Broncos beat writer for The Denver Post. She was previously the digital news editor for sports. Before arriving in Denver, she spent five years at Sports Illustrated working primarily as its online NBA editor. She also spent two years as a home page editor at the New York Times.